Böcker av Pearl S Buck

"Den goda jorden" är berättelsen om den kinesiske bonden Wang Lungs väg från fattigdom till rik och mäktig jordägare med både hustru och älskarinna. Buck beskriver de kinesiska kvinnornas liv och maktlöshet, både som gifta och ogifta, ge...

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When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family...

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"The author's famous story of a Japanese boy who must face life after escaping the tidal wave destruction of his family and village . . ."--"Booklist." Illustrated with 18th- and 19th-century Japanese prints.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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Originally published in 1955, Buck's book is a heartwarming story about sacrifice and the spirit of giving. Now with critically acclaimed artist Buehner's inspired illustrations, "Christmas Day in the Morning" will become a timeless holi...

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"The author's famous story of a Japanese boy who must face life after escaping the tidal wave destruction of his family and village . . ."--"Booklist." Illustrated with 18th- and 19th-century Japanese prints.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

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Excerpt from Fighting Angel: Portrait of a SoulBut the omission told as much as anything. For indeed the story was the story not of man or woman or child but of one soul and its march through time to its appointed end. For this soul there was birt...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATEDBY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPA poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country9s last emperor.EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: - A concise introduction that give...

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Nobel winner Pearl S. Buck's classic debut novel, about one Chinese woman's coming of age as she's torn between Eastern and Western cultures. Kwei-lan is a traditional Chinese girltaught by her mother to submit in all things, ';as a flower submits...

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The second installment in Pearl S. Buck's acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruinSons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang...

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A man returns to his native China to find upheaval in both his homeland and his family in this novel by a New York Timesbestselling author. On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country...

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From the Nobel Prizewinning author of The Good Earth: The ';moving story' of a peasant woman in pre-revolutionary China who is abandoned by her husband (Kirkus Reviews). Dickensian in its epic sweep, one of Buck's finest novels centers on an unnam...

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A ';vivid and extremely interesting' novel of an upper-class Chinese wife's quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prizewinning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker). At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China's...

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ANew York Timesbestselling historical novel about the Japanese invasion of Nanking from the author ofThe Good Earth. Farmer Liang Tan knows only a quiet, traditional life in his remote Chinese farming community. When news filters in that Japanese ...

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A novel set in WWII Burma about a tragic ChineseEnglish alliance from the New York Timesbestselling author of Dragon Seed and The Good Earth. Burma is under attack from the Japanese army, and a unit of Chinese soldiers is sent to aid endangered Br...

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A young Chinese woman falls in love with a Jewish man in nineteenth-century China in this evocative novel by the Nobel Prizewinning author of The Good Earth. In 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish fami...

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